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October 18, 2010
Winter semester has started
The winter semester 2010/11 has started with an introduction event on October 11. All new students of the Master's program Simulation Sciences joined the event and were officially welcomed by GRS vice president Dr. Norbert Drewes. In the following, Dr. Vera Kleber introduced them to the German Research School and to the Master's program Simulation Sciences, and Elisabeth Altenberger provided them with useful information on living and surviving in Germany in general and Aachen in particular.
The Master's program Simulation Sciences is an interdisciplinary program taught in English and attracts students from all over the world (this semester: China, Columbia, Germany, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, USA, Vietnam). On Wednesday, October 13, the first lecture started.
More information on the Master's program is provided here.

September 17, 2010
PRACE awards 40.4 million compute hours to Prof. Carloni
Ten European research projects, one of them by Prof. Carloni (GRS), have been awarded access to the PRACE infrastructure. In total 321.4 Million compute core hours were granted. Sixty-eight applications requesting a total of 1870 Million compute hours were received in this call, which was the first opportunity for researchers to apply for PRACE resources.
The successful projects will have access to JUGENE, IBM BlueGene/P, hosted by the Gauss-Centre for Supercomputing member site in Jülich, Germany, which is the first Petascale HPC system available to researchers through PRACE. It is the fastest computer in Europe available for public research.
Prof. Carloni's project "Excess proton at water/hydrophobic interfaces: A Car-Parrinello MD study" has been awarded 40.4 million core-hours. His research group will perform ab initio molecular dynamics of an excess proton in the presence of a water/decane mixture as used experimentally. They plan to calculate the free energy of the process using thermodynamic integration and determine at which distance from the surface it is most probable that the proton localizes.
More information on PRACE and other successful project can be found here.

September 14, 2010
Best paper award at ICPP 2010 conference
Our Laboratory for Parallel Programming received the best paper award of the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), which currently takes place in San Diego, California. The award, which was assigned for the paper "Identifying the root causes of wait states in large-scale parallel applications", is shared by the authors David Böhme (AICES, JSC), Markus Geimer (JSC), Felix Wolf (GRS, JSC) and Dr. Lukas Arnold (JSC).
The ICPP conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in any aspects of parallel and distributed computing.

September 6-10, 2010
Workshop "Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics"
In September, the workshop "Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics" will take place at the German Research School for Simulation Sciences in Aachen. It deals with current numerical methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics, with lectures and hands-on sessions. More information can be found here.

August 1, 2010
Founding President Prof. Müller-Krumbhaar followed by Dr. Drewes on executive board, Prof. Behr new President
Prof. Heiner Müller-Krumbhaar, Founding President of the German Research School for Simulation Sciences, has officially retired from his position as member of the executive board. His successor is Dr. Norbert Drewes, Secretary General of JARA (Jülich Aachen Research Alliance) and new Vice President from August 1, 2010. Prof. Marek Behr, member of the executive board and Vice President since August 2008, has become the new President of the German Research School. 

July 2010
Prof. Koch part of Research Group 1346
Research Group 1346, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), comprises 25 scientists at 16 research institutions. The number stands for the topic “Dynamical Mean-Field Approach with Predictive Power for Strongly Correlated Materials”.
The DFG will initially fund this project for three years with a total volume of around € 2.4 million.
Prof. Eva Pavarini from the Institute of Solid State Research (IFF) will represent the project in Jülich. Due to her good experience with the Jülich supercomputers, the main objective of work at Jülich will be the simulation of strongly correlated systems with massively parallel supercomputers. In addition to the invaluable advantages of networking with working groups that rank top in the world, the research group will fund two positions for PhD students, one in the team of Prof. Eva Pavarini and one in the team of Prof. Erik Koch from the German Research School for Simulation Sciences (GRS). Prof. Koch is the second JARA scientist involved in the research group.
Source and more information: JARA webpages

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